Thread (unit)

Thread was an English thread measure and the English weife . The measure was also widespread in Germany , in contrast to the limited French standard.

• 1 thread = 1.5 yards
• 1 skein (lea) = 80 threads = 120 yards
• 1 Hank (Strehn) = ½ Hesps (piece) = 2 Slips = 6 Heers = 7 Skeins = 840 yards
• 4 hanks = 2 hesps = 1 spindle = 18 hanks = 15 120 yards (cotton)
• 1 spindle = 4 hanks = 48 leas = 14400 yards (linen and hemp yarn)

In Scotland the spindle was deviant.

• 1 spindle scotch = 38 leas = 11400 yards
• 1 yard is 0.9144 meters to be set

literature

• Friedrich Noback : General stock exchange and account book: Containing the entire stock, fund, monetary system, bills of exchange and Bid rates, exchange law, measures, weights, usages, etc. Appendix: Telegraph, postal u. Insurance. Volume 3, Verlag Adolf Gumprecht, Leipzig 1862, p. 111.